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2015-07-10

Companies Begin Planting Microchips Under Employees' Skin

Vatic Note: This is in total violation of our right to privacy and the corporation has no right to impinge on this right without probable cause. If we do nothing about it, then we are responsible for our own demise. They are clever about it though. They set up systems that would work better if you had an RFID chip that responded to such systems, like door openings etc, however, if the company wanted to spy on you, they could.

Notice how they say "..... these corporations are in "support" of RFID chipping," rather than saying "You Vill do as we tell you to do". At every step we are being allowed to stop it and we do not.

The technology has been around for some years now, but the use of RFID
(radio-frequency identification) chips and other beneath-the-skin
implants has only recently become more widespread.

A high-tech office complex in Sweden is now offering tenants' staff the
option of having a small RFID chip implanted in one's wrist that allows
certain functions in the building to be performed with a wave of the
hand, such as opening doors and operating photocopiers.

Epicenter office block developers are in support of the implanting
program, which is being made available through a Swedish bio-hacking
group.

The group promotes the use of bio-enhancement technology and predicts a
future in which sophisticated implant systems will closely monitor a
range of inputs from body sensors while interacting with the "internet
of things."

In other words, we will soon have the option of being
physically connected to the Internet as well as to an increasingly
widespread network of smart devices.

For many, the idea of having an implant containing personal information inserted under the skin is not a welcome option.

Not only is there maybe something creepy about the whole idea to begin
with, but the fact is that a lot of us feel our privacy and autonomy has
been compromised enough already, without voluntarily becoming walking
transmitters of our personal data.

Some predict that one day it won't be a matter of choice, or that the
use of implants and other types of bio-enhancement and connectivity will
become so commonplace as to be expected, if not required. The fear is
that we will lose our freedom and privacy in the process.

Others welcome the prospect of becoming physically connected to the
internet of things, such as the bio-hacking group responsible for the
office block's RFID program.

He is starting small, aiming to get 100 volunteers signed up in the
coming few months, with 50 people already implanted. But his vision is
much bigger.

Then will be a 1,000, then 10,000. I am convinced that this technology
is here to stay and we will think it nothing strange to have an implant
in their hand.

Although the RFID chips being used now are capable of little more than
opening doors and operating copiers, the potential is far greater. RFID
chips will likely evolve into ever-more sophisticated devices, capable
of a wide range of interactions.

Already companies are developing technologies that will go a step beyond
the already-familiar "wearable" gadgets — examples include a digital
tattoo that can be stamped onto skin and can monitor body functions.

It's certainly easy to imagine that within a few years there will be
dramatic advances regarding what this type of technology can do.

And since various types of bodily enhancement — bionic limbs, pacemakers
and cosmetic surgery -- are already commonplace, it stands to reason
that many people will have few if any qualms about implants and other
bio-hacking tech.

On the other hand, the idea of a central authority having the advantage
of direct connections and access to an individual's physical body with
the potential of monitoring GPS position, heart rate, perhaps even brain
waves, is frightening to contemplate.

Most of us have embraced the revolutionary technological advances of the
past few decades. We're more connected than ever before, and even if we
don't all agree that this is necessarily a good thing, very few of us
would willingly give up our smartphones at this point.

But perhaps we should be extremely careful about making the leap to
cyborg status. Is this truly an inevitable and potentially useful tech
advancement or is it a step too far?

The time for debate is now, because the technology is already entering
the mainstream. And as with most technological revolutions, once it has
happened there is little hope of turning back.

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